BlogHide Resteemsalavan (47)in gaming • 5 years agoGame of the Year 2019Game of the Year 2019 Games I enjoyed this year Hollow Knight Crisis 3 Dragon Age: Inquisition The Last third of The Witcher 3 The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone Blade…alavan (47)in gaming • 6 years ago2018: Game of the yearGame of the Year And More Games I enjoyed this year Call of Juarez: Gunslinger The Thrill of the Fight HITMAN Super Smash Bros: Ultimate Lance A Lot The Forest Dead Effect 2 VR…alavan (47)in gaming • 6 years ago2018 Gaming Recap (The Good, the Sad, and the Ugly)A 2018 Gaming Recap Before I get to my top 5 games of the year, let's go through some interesting things that happened in the world of Gaming in 2018. As well as my enjoyable, and…alavan (47)in programming • 6 years agoXSLT-HTML: A new way to do your server-side UI frameworkA case for a simpler, easier-to-maintain UI But what is an XSLT? It stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations. And it is a programming language that eats XML and spits out…alavan (47)in gaming • 6 years agoReview: Mario Tennis - AcesOne of the best games on the Switch so far. A nice surprise I've really been enjoying Mario Tennis: Aces on the Switch. It's my wife and I's new favorite game to play together. I bought it…alavan (47)in programming • 6 years agoAgile and Scrum are not "Terrible" as this article suggestsI recently discovered this article: Why “Agile” and especially Scrum are terrible And I wanted to discuss Agile, Scrum, and other project methodologies, and why this attitude of one is…alavan (47)in cars • 6 years agoRiding in a SlingshotThis thing is fun... for a bit ! Recently, I got to ride as a passenger in a Polaris Slingshot. These things are designed to be driven like a car but feel like a motorcycle. My brother was…alavan (47)in photography • 6 years agoStorm looming over Garden of the GodsI took this back in August, and came across it today. Colorado is such a beautiful state. And I'm saying this coming from Texas, another pretty awesome state.alavan (47)in art • 6 years agoMy attempt at Ace Attorney Pumpkins... OBJECTION!alavan (47)in programming • 6 years agoPossible fix for: Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days To Avoid Integer OverflowSo I saw this story: Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days To Avoid Integer Overflow And I came up with something. Let me know if I'm missing something fundamental here. Maybe I'm missing…alavan (47)in utopian-io • 6 years agoPlease do not use bitwise flag columns, as someone who works for a company that made this decision a while back.Don't do this: When I started working at my current place of employment, I found that user permissions and material properties were being stored in bitwise columns. For example: if your…alavan (47)in funny • 6 years agoShared from the past: Totalbiscuit's best Blue Plz intro (Badge Plz)alavan (47)in gaming • 6 years agoA Look Back - Uncharted 4: A Thief's EndUncharted 4: A Thief's End Instead of opening with the epic and bombastic Drake's Theme at the main menu, Uncharted 4 opens with a caged skeleton hanging from a rock and eerie silence with a…alavan (47)in gaming • 6 years agoA Look Back - Enslaved: Oddyssey to the WestBefore we get started, I think I'm going to call these reviews "A Look Back" instead of "Belated Game Reviews". Let me know what you think. Enslaved: Oddyssey to the West Enslaved tries to do…alavan (47)in gaming • 6 years agoVideo Game Cover: Star Fox 64: Mission Accomplished on Baritonealavan (47)in gaming • 6 years agoBelated Game Reviews: Red Faction ArmageddonRed Faction: Armageddon is a very satisfying game, but the only problem is that it's predecessor Red Faction: Guerrilla offered more in that it was a sandbox game. And that's a shame because…alavan (47)in life • 6 years agoThe Different Time Travel RulesThe Different Time Travel Rules Back to the Future 2 and Star Trek Rules: Going back in time creates an alternate timeline that you follow when you go back to the future. Both timelines exist…alavan (47)in gaming • 7 years agoPAX South - Requests of what to report?This weekend I'll be heading to PAX South in San Antonio. I will be doing my best to hit all of the booths, or at least give them a look, playing what's interesting to me. But as…alavan (47)in gaming • 7 years ago2017 Gaming Wrap UpHere's an odd 2017 gaming wrap-up. It's a world where Wolfenstein: The New Order can go up against Prey. Not because I'm weird (but I am), but because I played them in 2017 so ha! Top 5 of…alavan (47)in programming • 7 years agoDevelopers should learn Configuration over Convention FIRSTWhy developers should learn Configuration over Convention FIRST Yes, notice I said Configuration over Convention. You didn't read that wrong. Now, before you cry "No! I love my Rails magic…
